IQ-TREE

Efficient phylogenomic software by maximum likelihood

Latest standard version 1.5.5 released on June 2, 2017

IQ-TREE key features

IQ-TREE - Efficient Tree Reconstruction

A fast and effective stochastic algorithm to infer phylogenetic trees by maximum likelihood. IQ-TREE compares favorably to RAxML and PhyML in terms of likelihoods with similar computing time (Nguyen et al., 2015).

How to cite IQ-TREE?

To maintain IQ-TREE, support users and secure fundings, it is important for us that you cite the following papers, whenever the corresponding features were applied for your analysis. Note that the paper of Nguyen et al. (2015) only described the tree search algorithm. Thus, it is not enough to only cite this paper if you, for example, use partition models, where Chernomor et al. (2016) should be cited.